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Partial reimbursement for a flight was apparently enough to placate a Swedish passenger forced to sit across the aisle from a corpse for most of her 10-hour flight to Tanzania. The extremely ill passenger was sweating and suffering from convulsions when Swedish radio reporter Lena Pettersson boarded the Kenya Airways plane in Amsterdam. "Air hostesses were there all along, but the plane took off anyway," said Pettersson. The man, who was in his 30s, died after the flight took off. "I asked to move, but they said there were no other places," she added. She complained to the airline later in a letter, and the cost of about half of her $1400 ticket was reimbursed, reports the Local. "This feels much better. It is reasonable," she noted on a Swedish radio program.

This actually happened to one of my cousins on a transatlantic flight. He was sitting right next to a guy that died of a heart attack. He has to sit for hours next to the dead body. I would have gone apeshit and demanded that the body be moved to a bathroom or the cockpit. No way would I let that happen. And WTF killed this guy? Did they quarantine the airplane. Can you say EBOLA?

shaboom

Jun 25, 2012 7:12 PM CDT

Flight Attendant: "Hello. Would you like to sit next to a Republican or a corpse today?" Passenger: "Aw hell no, Put me with the corpse!"